Integrative + Functional Dietitian
Erica Gutierrez, Functional Dietitian, is our newest addition to The Nutrition Clinic for Digestive Health!
Erica has an extensive background in gut health, blood sugar management, and metabolism. She loves listening to a patient’s story and helping them uncover root issues that are causing unwanted symptoms and health conditions. She is someone who will be right beside her patient along their journey to health with no stone unturned when it comes to understanding her patient.
She has been a dietitian since 2008 and has been formally advancing her skills as a functional dietitian for the last 5 years. She personally understands the struggles of uncovering complex health conditions and coming out the other end thriving as her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (which is an autoimmune disease), no one could give her the answers she was looking for (hint: it had a lot to do with her gut).
Erica is trained as a health coach, integrative dietitian, and weight management expert. She enjoys customizing programs and protocols based on assessment and specialty testing for the gut, hormones, nutrients, food sensitivities, and genetics.
During Erica’s sessions, she will first analyze a very thorough intake form from a patient that includes diet, movement, stress, sleep, environmental exposures, supplements/meds, health conditions, symptoms, and personal goals. After the initial consultation, she may suggest some additional specialty tests – which could include stool testing, hormones, thyroid, adrenals, genetics, food sensitivities, immune and nutrient deficiencies.
When she is not working with patients or creating new content, she is an active mom of three teen children and spends free time enjoying nature, experimenting with recipes, relaxing in IR sauna sessions and traveling with her husband and kids.